2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE

2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371407
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: 2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: 2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371407
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: 2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: 2 DEFENCE ELECTRIC LIGHT EMPLACEMENTS TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Blyth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 32058 79687

Details

BLYTH LINKS ROAD NZ 37 NW (EAST SIDE) 5/121 2 Defence Electric light emplacements, to east of Link House GV II Defence electric light emplacements, 1914-19. Reinforced concrete and steel, with some brick, whitewashed. Two small rectangular buildings 20 metres apart, each with a semi-octagonal projection at the seaward corner.

Each has a doorway and boarded window in the landward end, machine gun loops in the other walls, and boarded openings of curving section in the projection, under a heavy girder; added brickwork above girder level in emplacement no.1 (southern). The projections have flat roofs of a slightly-lower level to the low-pitched roof of the main part. The beam produced by a parabola-ellipse reflector could be directed through an 0.1 metre slit between curved metal shutters and still illuminate a wide area of sea; the 2 emplacements were operated by an E.L.O. (Electric Light Officer) in a director station at Link House Battery (q.v.) 300 metres to the south, and powered by an engine house 50 metres to the west, now a public lavatory (q.v.). Rare survival of a World War 1 coastal defence installation.

Listing NGR: NZ3205879687

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.